Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-03

house, and fields OF waving grain, saying
something like ihis: Il will make this
valley so desOlate that the crow pass
ing over it must carry its own provi-
siOns. W No doubt this is what the
irate General Rosser was thinking about
when he said tht if General Sheridan
should carry out his intended visit through
The Shenandoah valley this year, he should,
like I've crow, carry his own provisions
with iam.
ln Eht of ShepherdStowu looms up the
monument on the summit OF South Noun
tain, and still further on rises the heights
known Is Pen-mar, on the line between
Pennsylvania and Maryland, 4 Mecca for
eNCuTSlonisis during the summer months.
one mile from the town, on the farm
OF Colonel Wm. 4 Morgan, is Morgan :
Spring, a spring Of pure cold water large
enough to supply Il city as large ~ Wheel
ing. Around this spring mustered and
campcd the first Southern troops that
marched TO Boston after the first battle
OF the Revolutionary war. Here Camped
both Union and Confederate forces during
the late rebellion.
The well dug by the army of the fated
Gcner' BEaddock in his march to Fort Du
Que, ,s between Shepherdstown and
Char!estOwn. The places where the noted
officers in the Revolutionary war, General
HOratio Gates and General Charles Lee,
once dwelt, are still pointed out.
Near the town is the summer villa Of
Mr.. Henry Shepherd, descendant of
Capt. Thomas Shepherd, who settled in this
section in 1913. This consists OF hundreds
and hundreds of acres, with their fine
buildings, parks, lakes avenues, fine horses,
cattle, etc, forming what is said to he one
Of the finest villas south of the Potomac.
We cannot describe what We saw in pass
ing over these grounds, and must leave the
description to another pen.
The Shenandoah Valley is one of the
richest and most beautiful valleys that
God ever made 1t is more than twenty
miles wide aud is underluid by the old
Siuriau limestone, which, AT frequent in
tcrvaiS, crops ont through the surface.
These rocks ayes ago, through some great
volcanic uphtayll, were thrown upon their
edges 80 that the strata, instead OF being
almost horizontal, rs along the Ohio river,
extend into the earth almost prrpeudiCu-
LARRY. This valley was the bottom ot an
inland sea, until the time the
Potomac aud shenandoah rivers
burst through the mountain at
Harpers Ferry and drained the coun-
try. With such country surrounding,
there is no reason why such towns aS Mar
tlnsbuTg, Shrphcrdstown, and Charles
town should not flourish ~ the green bay
tree The principal thing they need is
enterprise in building mills and manutac-
tories to utilize the fine water power that
gors unemployed.
The farmers OF this section are taking Il
great interest in the improvement of their
work. On September L., and IL, fair
Is to be held al Morgan's Grove,
about one mile from Shepherdstown
aud on September : and : one
is to be held at Mothers Cross Roads,
about 'hrce miles from town. These fairs
were very successful last year and are eN-
perted To be much more so this year.
The teachers Of this county have recent
ly closed a very successful institute, con-
Quoted 10y Prof. Joseph McMurran, at this
place This county had established free
schools long before the war. The terms
uow extend through nine months. The
Graded School at Shcphrrdst0wn, under
the management of Prof. Geo W. Banks,
is nourishiug. The Shepherd College
Branch State Normal School, under the
pincipalship OF Prof. 4. B. Bush, is
entering upon new era Of prosperity. The
Asldemic department provided for by the
state superintendent Is II preparatory
school tn the West Virginia University was
last year put in working order, and will
this year hc represented at the University.
Many Of the representative men about
Shcphcrd>town belonging to the families
who were the first settlers, such as the
Lees, Powells, Liskhidcrs, Shepherds,
Lemons, MorganS, Reynoldses, Billmyers.
BotecrS, Butlers. and McMurrans
y. ID. A.